Usually means: Government owes money to creditors.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. public debt: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. public debt: Merriam-Webster
  3. public debt: Collins English Dictionary
  4. public debt: Vocabulary.com
  5. public-debt: Wordnik
  6. public debt: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. public debt: Dictionary.com
  8. Public debt: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. public debt: Rhymezone
  10. public debt: FreeDictionary.org
  11. public debt: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. public debt, debt, public: TheFreeDictionary.com
  13. public debt: Wiktionary

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. C-SPAN Congressional Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  4. Nelson Political Science Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Public debt, debt, public: Legal dictionary
  6. Public debt, debt, public: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. public debt, debt, public: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (public debt)

▸ noun:  Synonym of national debt

Similar:
national debt, debt service, Debt ratio, indebtedness, government bond, debt, in debt, bad debt, debtor, treasury bond, more...

Opposite:
private debt, personal debt, individual debt

Phrases:
History of the United States public debt, Canadian public debt, more...

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Similar:
national debt, debt service, Debt ratio, indebtedness, government bond, debt, in debt, bad debt, debtor, treasury bond, more...

Opposite:
private debt, personal debt, individual debt

Phrases:
History of the United States public debt, Canadian public debt, more...



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